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Oh no...Sand People!3/05/2009 11:42:33 am PST

Been chatting with a friend of mine’s brother. Check out this fine talking point:

The U.S. accounts for 50% of the whole world’s military expenses (this is true year in and year out whether we are at war or not), yet we only account for 4.5% of the world’s population. Think about how much better we would be, as a country, if all that money, year after year, was put to use improving our health care, roads, energy grids, schools, etc.? The Cold War tactics of the KGB created this financial boondoggle. Much like the attacks on 9/11 did because we played into their hands by invading 2 countries and have spent already 1 trillion dollars with nothing to show for it. We, as a country, are reactionary and our enemies know this. Yet we keep playing into their hands and we shoot ourselves in our collective feet….What I am saying is that wars, threats of wars, etc. are big money and can easily be started. The amount of money physically lost during the Iraq war alone would pay for the SCHIP program for a couple of years. It is our love of all things related to war that will be our undoing. Quite an accomplishment for a “Christian” country. I guess someone should of read past Malachi and gotten to the New Testament and the new ethic that replaced an eye for an eye. Oops, I hate pointing out that Christians really are not Christlike, it does bother them so.

So ‘Soviet expansion’ was no real threat. 9/11 and 3000 dead is just playing into their hands… 1 trillion with nothing to show for it…and shooting ourselves in the collective feet…

Are we really a ‘Christian’ nation? We can all worship how we want last time I checked.

What might be your input into this conversation. I am interested.